Gaster Amulets : Recipe book

Gaster Amulets

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Recipe book (Gaster Amulet 175)

Fragment from a recipe book.

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
  • Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
  • Classmark: Gaster Amulet 175
  • Title: Recipe book
  • Language(s): Hebrew
  • Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
  • Date of Creation: 11th-12th century
  • Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
  • Quotation(s):
    "גבר לגבר או בין גבר [ ] סיטידון וטמור יתיה [ ] [ש]מך רחמנא מרחמנא [ ] ויתהפיך ליבא דפב"פ [ ] סדום ועמורה כן [ ] פב"פ בשם להמיאל [ ] בשם נמואל ובשם [ ]ל ובשם יה וה יה [...] לאהבה בשם [ ] לפני מלך מלכי [ ] הקב"ה..."
  • Note(s):

    Contains two recipes. The first appears to be a recipe for making two people hate each other. A second recipe is for love.

    Divine names are marked with overlines. A different section (i.e., the second recipe) is indicated by two small circles.

  • Format: Sheet
  • Material(s): Paper
  • Extent: height: 165 mm, width: 80 mm.
  • Function: For love and, most probably, also for hate
  • Shape: The original rectangle has been torn into an irregular shape.
  • Condition:

    Fragment with uneven edges; tears along the edges, liquid damage, usage stains.

    This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.

  • Layout: A single column.
  • Script:

    Hebrew Oriental semi-square script.

  • Provenance:

    Cairo Genizah?

  • Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
  • Date of Acquisition: 1954
  • Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.

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    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
    • Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
    • Classmark: Gaster Amulet 175
    • Title: Recipe book
    • Language(s): Hebrew
    • Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
    • Date of Creation: 11th-12th century
    • Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
    • Quotation(s):
      "גבר לגבר או בין גבר [ ] סיטידון וטמור יתיה [ ] [ש]מך רחמנא מרחמנא [ ] ויתהפיך ליבא דפב"פ [ ] סדום ועמורה כן [ ] פב"פ בשם להמיאל [ ] בשם נמואל ובשם [ ]ל ובשם יה וה יה [...] לאהבה בשם [ ] לפני מלך מלכי [ ] הקב"ה..."
    • Note(s):

      Contains two recipes. The first appears to be a recipe for making two people hate each other. A second recipe is for love.

      Divine names are marked with overlines. A different section (i.e., the second recipe) is indicated by two small circles.

    • Format: Sheet
    • Material(s): Paper
    • Extent: height: 165 mm, width: 80 mm.
    • Function: For love and, most probably, also for hate
    • Shape: The original rectangle has been torn into an irregular shape.
    • Condition:

      Fragment with uneven edges; tears along the edges, liquid damage, usage stains.

      This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.

    • Layout: A single column.
    • Script:

      Hebrew Oriental semi-square script.

    • Provenance:

      Cairo Genizah?

    • Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
    • Date of Acquisition: 1954
    • Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.

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